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Jun.30.2012
I was recently asked what tips/tricks I use for marketing or promoting my own titles. Here's the marketing prospective I favor.
Word of Mouth. I believe most people buy because a friend or family member recommends an author or the reader has met the author. Because of this belief, I plan meet-...
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Aug.16.2011
This is a fun idea. I, personally, never found any recipe in a book. I have, however, heard of a librarian who found slices of uncooked bacon used for bookmarks.
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Instant CoffeeRecipe for instant coffee, slightly improved:
Bring water to boil
Put in instant...
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May.04.2011
May is turning out to be one exciting month for me. Iwould like to sahre the good news. I got an agent at L.Perkins Agency in NY! The agents said, " She loves my unique twist on our Aztec and Latino characters." Also, I asked my artsy friend s to help me put together my new image and...
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Jan.25.2011
Yesterday I saw the ultimate bookmark. It contains a timer so that you can read for a set amount of time. It is the next big thing, I'm sure. Even more interesting was the statement at the bottom of the bookmark saying that you can read this timer in the dark. I'm not sure how you could read in...
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Nov.16.2010
I figured I'd start blogging on the finer points of this self-publishing journey I've been on for a while now, starting with book signings. Now, if there's one thing I don't like doing, it's going out making public appearances. I can be quite shy and introverted, especially in regards to my...
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Sep.21.2010
If you love to read, I'm sure you have two kinds of landscapes stored in your mind: the real ones you live in or visit, and the imaginary ones that writers create to support their stories and poetry. Many of these imaginary ones, of course, are closely (sometimes explicity) modelled on their real-...
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Aug.16.2010
This bookmark is free. It's individually hand-signed, so it's the next best thing to a signed copy of one of my books. It can be personalized on request. And I'm offering it to any and all of my readers for just an S.A.S.E.
But now I have a better offer for book groups who are reading one of my...
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Jul.12.2010
EJ Hersom/Staff photographer Thousands of bookmarks promoting an anti-public school stance and websites make a tall stack in the Dover Public Library, where the bookmarks were inserted into thousands of books without the staff's knowledge
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May.12.2009
One becomes a numbers junkie, watching the lists. This morning I was pleased to see that Mistress of the Sun was still on the "Globe & Mail" Canadian fiction list, and that it had gone up to #8. I feel like Mine that Bird, coming from behind. I'm hot on the tail of Water for Elephants...
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Apr.12.2009
Climbing To The Top - A Search Engine's Perspective http://gr5mom2.wordpress.com/ To ‘conquer all obstacles' and get your site climbing higher in those search engines, you must be prepared to do some work. Sure, establishing a readership so those hits magnify in numbers is important, but now...
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